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Strengths: How to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Part 3.
In my previous 2 blogs, I laid out a strategy for identifying your top strengths, and then translating them into potential career roles, all toward helping you find ways to increase your career satisfaction. Now let’s spend a little time talking about specific career-satisfaction-boosting strategies. One thing I’ve noticed in my 20 plus years as a career counselor is that people love the identifying their strengths, but then aren’t sure how to apply them in their careers more successfully. Here are strategies for doing that! Strategy #1: Get involved in projects that use your...
read moreStrengths: How to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Part 2.
In our last blog exercise, you defined your top 3 strengths. In this article, I’ll show you how to begin applying them in your work, and one of the most valuable steps is to translate those strengths into roles. You can also think of roles as potential job titles. For instance, I’ll translate a few strengths into roles: Conceptualizing ideas: Artist, designer, planner, troubleshooter Organizing: Coordinator, project manager, manager, director Leadership: Manager, director, project manager Conflict Resolution: Mediator, counselor, case manager Making connections between disparate ideas:...
read moreStrengths: How to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Part 1.
In this article I’ll be talking about your strengths and how to apply them for greater career satisfaction. To get the most out of this information, be prepared to jot down some thoughts as we go along. First, I’ll help you get clearer on your strengths and then I’ll give you an initial plan of action for how to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Let’s dive in talking about how to define your top three strengths. You probably have more than three but we’re just going to focus on three to have a manageable number. If you want to add more to your list you’re certainly...
read moreWhat’s Your Career Status? Part 2
In our most recent blog post, we talked uncovered which career status is most on track for you. Now I’ll cover specific action steps you can take to move forward. Status 1: “I’m pretty happy in my career right now and want to keep things moving forward well.” Recommended Action Steps: Articulate clear growth goals. This is important because in a conversation with your manager, if you say you want to progress, don’t rely on him or her to have the ideas for you because quite realistically they won’t. They have lots on their plate and they’re hoping you’re going to come...
read moreWhat’s your career status? Part 1
What’s your career status? Thinking this through is a valuable starting step to help you work through identifying what you need to do to you achieve greater satisfaction in your career. In this discussion, I’ll be covering six categories of career status. I first want you to take a guess at where you stand, and then we’re going to go a little deeper into examining what those statuses look like. In a later blog, I’ll give you an energizing plan for each of those status areas. This is important because the better you’re awareness, the better your choices. And as you make better...
read moreOur 20 best tips ever…and here are 16-20
Tip # 16: Update your successes. In Tip #8 (earlier blog) I suggested about documenting your successes and having a handful of those ready to go. Once you get that started, every time you have a little win, I want for you to jot it down somewhere. Keep a record. This will give you easy access to content that can help you sell yourself more successfully in performance reviews, as you might be updating your resume, and also great content for job interviews. Just get in the habit of noting what happens, how you made it happen, and what were the results, those metrics around how did you help...
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